Lichtenhein, T. – Montgomery, H.P. 1861




Results
 
Name   Edo    Dev.   Score  /  Games 
Lichtenhein, Theodor    2492 (56) 7.5/10 
Montgomery, Hardman    2471 (47) 2.5/10 
 
Status: formal

Event table notes

Event data
Place: Philadelphia
Start date: Jan. 1861
End date: 16 Jan. 1861
 
Notes:
Feenstra Kuiper gives location as Chicago; Reichhelm, Hilbert, Di Felice, Staunton (in the Illustrated London News) and La Grande Storia degli Scacchi give Philadelphia. Reichhelm gives the match date as Jan. 1861. The Era of 20 Jan. 1861, citing the Chess Monthly, says the match was to start 7 Jan. 1861. Di Felice and Staunton give the start date as 8 Jan. 1861, but Hilbert cites Sam Loyd's New York Illustrated News column of 12 Jan. 1861 doubting that the match would ever start. The New York Clipper of 12 Jan. 1861 says that the 'match will take place on Monday evening next', which could be 14 Jan., or, if the column was written before the previous Monday, it might mean 7 Jan. 1861. The Era of 17 Feb. 1861 (p.5) gives the end date as 16 Jan. 1861.
 
References
Books
   Di Felice, Chess Results, 1747-1900, page 34
   Feenstra Kuiper, 100 Jahre Schachzweikämpfe, page 17
   Gilberg, Fifth American Chess Congress, page 45, 55
   Hilbert, Tragic Life of Leonard, page 71, 91
   Reichhelm and Shipley, Chess in Philadelphia, page 8, 27
   van Winsen, Mackenzie, Mason and Co. VII, page 42
Periodicals
   [Era], vol. 23, no. 1165, 20 Jan. 1861, page 13
   [Era], vol. 23, no. 1168, 10 Feb. 1861, page 14
   [Era], vol. 23, no. 1169, 17 Feb. 1861, page 5
   [Era], vol. 24, no. 1215, 5 Jan. 1862, page 4
   [ILN], vol. 38, no. 1072, 2 Feb. 1861, page 108
   [ILN], vol. 38, no. 1075, 16 Feb. 1861, page 156
   [NR], vol. 2, no. 4, Apr. 1861, page 115
   [NYC], 12 Jan. 1861
   [NYC], 26 Jan. 1861
   [PDEB], 16 Mar. 1866
   [PDEB], 28 Jan. 1870
   [SZ], vol. 16, no. 5, May 1861, page 154
Web
   Sericano, C.  [I grandi matches 1850 - 1864]
   Spinrad, Jeremy P.  [Collected results, 1836-1863]

Match information updated: 8 Dec. 2023